Briefing on the Modern ML Stack with R

Javier Luraschi, RStudio

Overview

About RStudio

RStudio’s Multiverse Team

Authors of R packages to support Apache Spark, TensorFlow and MLflow. Contributors to tidyverse and Apache Arrow.

The Modern ML Stack with R

Motivation

In an ideal world, all R packages work with Spark, like magic. Such is the case for dplyr and sparklyr.

Why R?

Modern R

The tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures.

Timeline

Use Cases

Technical

Community

Thanks!